Phylogeny and higher classification of suborder Psocomorpha (Insecta: Psocodea: ‘ Psocoptera’)
Author
Yoshizawa, Kazunori
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2002
2002-11-30
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https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00036.x
journal article
10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00036.x
0024-4082
5436775
ELIPSOCOIDEA
,
SUPERFAM. NOV.
Small to medium in size, about
1–4 mm
in length. Body generally brown to blackish brown. Bark or stone surface dwellers.
Head with rounded vertex; postclypeus well bulged; epistomal suture with broad internal ridge; anteclypeus membranous or sclerotized narrowly. Wing polymorphism present, macropterous or apterous. Macropterous forewing venation of
Caecilius-
type
; veins and wing margin with one row of setae, CuP sometimes bare. Hindwing scarcely setose; marginal setae present between
R
2
+3 and
R
4
+5 only; Rs and M + Cu separate or fused for short distance basally; Rs and M fused. Tarsi 3-segmented; claws with preapical tooth; pulvillus narrow. Abdomen without eversible vesicles ventrally. Male genitalia: Hypandrium simply rounded posteriorly. Phallosome simple; aedeagus pointed apically; parameres extended distally far beyond aedeagus; endophallus without rod-like sclerite. Female genitalia: Subgenital plate with less developed pair of tubercles on distal margin, each bearing some apical setae. Gonapophyses complete; ventral valve simple; dorsal valve narrowed apically, with or without subapical process; external valve enlarged
.
Type
genus:
Elipsocus
Hagen, 1866
.
Included family:
Elipsocidae
.